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  • Eucharist: Doing the truth with Christian Faith

    July 27 2017
    Con Devree

    One is grateful to Fr Daly for arousing ones interest in stuff one might not otherwise address. In fairness to Fr Daly one assumes that in the main he quotes sources more for richness of expression r

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  • Eucharist: Doing the truth with Christian Faith

    July 27 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    While I admire Ernesto Buonaiuti, I am very ill at ease with his writings on the Eucharist, which were among the first to draw Pius X's ire. There are plenty of theologians who explored the symbolic c

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  • Eucharist: Doing the truth with Christian Faith

    July 27 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    I'm only offering marginal annotations, not intending anything like a comprehensive response. I'm in agreement with Fr Gabriel except on one or two points. "The average member of the church who prob

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  • Eucharist: Doing the truth with Christian Faith

    July 27 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    Pius X was very much a control freak. One instance of his micro-management is his order in 1909 that Msgr John Hagan, vice-rector of the Irish College, be interrogated about his friendship with the su

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  • Eucharist: Doing the truth with Christian Faith

    July 27 2017
    Richard O'Donnell

    Brilliant lecture by Fr. Gabriel. But, there will always be those “who cannot see.” It seems to me that Con @ 4 and Joe @ 7 miss the point completely.

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  • Eucharist: Doing the truth with Christian Faith

    July 27 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    Thomas is actually quite biblical in Summa Theologica III, q. 75: The presence of Christ's true body and blood in this sacrament cannot be detected by sense, nor understanding, but by faith alone, w

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  • Eucharist: Doing the truth with Christian Faith

    July 27 2017
    DOM

    "We therefore desired that all teachers of philosophy and sacred theology should be warned that if they deviated, as much as a step, in metaphysics especially, from Aquinas, they expose themselves to

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  • 30 July. 17th Sunday in O. T.

    July 30 2017
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Matthew today is a scribe bringing out from his storeroom things both new and old. We too can be that scribe. Some arrive at their heart's desire by serendipity, like the treasure in the field. Some

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  • Eucharist: Doing the truth with Christian Faith

    July 27 2017
    Roy Donovan

    Thanks to Gabriel. So liberating and massive freeing consequences. "The Church has no philosophy of her own, nor does she canonise any one particular philosophy in preference to others”! The buria

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  • Eucharist: Doing the truth with Christian Faith

    July 27 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    "In the institutional Catholic Church there was one uniform theology of the Eucharist: it concentrated on what happens to the bread and the wine when the priest says the words of consecration." I don'

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